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The opening session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) begins in Bonn, Germany, on 31 August, 2015 (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
The tough journey on the road to Paris: addressing the needs of the most vulnerable
… a "viable" agreement that would see 80 per cent of our fossil fuel resources stay in the ground . Hopefully, this momentum will continue to … climate law, policy and governance team in IIED's Climate Change Group. …
Insight, 02 September 2015
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Q&A with Sumaya Zakieldeen
… carried out by Saleemul Huq, Senior Fellow with the Climate Change Group . Q: Congratulations on your election to the Adaptation committee … climate change programme at the Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources. At this level I represent Khartoum University and contribute …
Article, 21 June 2012
Modern energy services are crucial to economic development. In Afghanistan, less than 10 per cent of the population has access to the electricity grid. French NGO GERES has been working to introduce low-cost passive solar building designs, reducing fuel poverty (Photo: Oriane Zera, GERES, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Facing up to the awkward realities of the post-2015 agenda
… we have identified six of the goals outlined in the Open Working Group's draft proposal – and highlighted some of the awkward realities … climate change and its impacts (Sustainable Development Goal 13) Natural resource and carbon-intensive investments continue to rise …
Insight, 28 January 2015
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Climate Change And Development Consultation On Key Researchable Issues Annex VI: West African Bibliography
… AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY ENDA Saleemul Huq and Hannah Reid Climate Change Group International Institute for Environment and Development 3 … E., Switzer J. and Hammill A. (2002) Adapting to Climate Change: Natural Resource Management and Vulnerability Reduction. Background …
Publication, 01 January 1970
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Climate Change And Development Consultation On Key Researchable Issues Annex V Lead Survey Comments On Question 5
… ON QUESTION 5 TREVOR REES Saleemul Huq and Hannah Reid Climate Change Group International Institute for Environment and Development 3 … to main coastal villages and cities - Ileana Espejel, North Mexico/natural resources, Mexico We already know from current experience what some of …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Ethiopia's Simien Mountains National Park is a World Heritage Site, but resource degradation has made lowland areas vulnerable to flooding caused by changing rainfall patterns. (Photo: Hulivili, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Building zero carbon emission economy in a decade
Article, 24 November 2015
Annual report 2007/08
… local investment, with an eye to replicating success round the world. Natural resources Getting to the root of fair forest management:  forests are … between global issues:  IIED’s Poverty and Conservation Learning Group, which includes over 100 organisations, used their annual …
Page, 23 December 2008
Moving beyond the preamble to creating a new story at Rio+20
… the main UK parties at the meeting organized by the All Party Group for International Development and the Environment .  Opening the … on GDP+, the term increasingly used to refer to measuring and valuing natural capital and general wellbeing, in addition to Gross Domestic … that the UK Government, with its interest in measuring wealth in natural capital, not just GDP, should further explore the idea of steady …
Insight, 24 May 2012
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Climate Change And Development Consultation On Key Researchable Issues
… CONTENTS FULL REPORT Saleemul Huq and Hannah Reid Climate Change Group International Institute for Environment and Development 3 … - IIED 2.1. Agriculture and food security - Laurel Murray 2.2. Water resources - Laurel Murray 2.3. Natural disasters - Laurel Murray 2.4. Coastal zones - Laurel Murray …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Business models for sustainable development
… in the long term. However, significant investment of time and resources at the start is key for successful innovation and scale-up. … The immediate objective is to catalyse the development of natural gas and renewable energy markets and sustainable community-based … project with Centro Terra Viva Mozambique and Tanzania Forest Working Group. It documents impacts of commercial biofuels developments on land …
Article, 10 May 2010